Jackpot Strike is a mobile focused casino that’s marketed towards players who demand the flexibility of being able to game whenever and wherever they get the urge. While desktop play is also possible, the site’s large sliders that nearly fill the screen are clearly best viewed on tablet or smartphone. A grid layout fills the screen, allowing mobile players to quickly swipe through the games before diving into whichever one takes their fancy, be it Gonzo’s Quest or Pixies of the Forest.

The site is powered by Nektan Limited who are based in Gibraltar and holds a license issued by the government of Gibraltar as well as one from the UK Gambling Commission. Jackpot Strike bills itself as a fun and exciting place to play mobile casino games. British-based players are the prime customers who make Jackpot Strike their gaming home from home. Just to confirm this, there’s a British number listed for customers who require support. The site also operates email and live chat support.

Getting Started at Jackpot Strike

If you want to play Jackpot Strike’s games for real money – and ideally to win some jackpots of your own – you’ll need to create an account. The process is quick and easy and once done you can visit the site’s main lobby, log in and get started.

Jackpot Strike uses industry standard encryption to safeguard your data and accords to data storage policies enacted by the Gibraltar government. Its table games and slots also use a Random Number Generator that has been independently certified to ensure fairness and honest payouts.

Making a Deposit

Jackpot Strike accepts deposits from a number of popular providers including credit cards and e-wallet. MasterCard, Visa, Boku, Paysafecard, Skrill and Neteller are all available. The minimum deposit amount is £10, while with Boku there’s a maximum deposit of £30 per day. This service is popular with mobile phone users as the deposit is charged directly to your telephone bill.

Withdrawals from your Jackpot Strike account, meanwhile, can be made by bank transfer or other methods; Boku is not available for withdrawals. One withdrawal a day is permitted, with a minimum amount of £20 and a max of £2,000. Withdrawal requests can take up to 72 hours to process and you may need to supply identification documents the first time. Withdrawals by credit card will take an additional 3-5 working days to clear.

Pick up a Welcome Bonus

As a reward for signing up with Jackpot Strike, the casino will treat you to a 400% welcome bonus on your first deposit. Credit £20 into your account and the casino will turn it into £100. They’ll also provide a second deposit match of 75% up to a maximum of £75 and a third deposit bonus of 150%, also up to £75. There’s a wagering requirement of 25x before any bonus cash can be withdrawn.

All through the week, Jackpot Strike runs promotions to keep its customers interested, starting with a Monday 50% deposit match of up to £250. There’s a 30x wagering requirement before winnings can be withdrawn. The site also hosts regularly tournaments, often to introduce major new video slots. Players who put in the most time will be rewarded with a share of the prize pot. On Fridays, there are bonus spins up for grabs. Deposit £10 or more and you’ll be awarded 10 free spins on Starburst.

Become a VIP

Regular players at Jackpot Strike are rewarded with admittance to the VIP Circle. This loyalty scheme has 3 tiers, VIP, Premier and Elite, and includes a welcome bonus of £20, £50 and £100 respectively. You’ll also be assigned a dedicated account manager and receive dedicated VIP promotions including a monthly bonus, an anniversary bonus and the option of increased deposit limits. Premier and Elite members will be treated to a birthday bonus of £20 and £50 respectively and Elite members will also be eligible for VIP hospitality.

Get Gaming

Jackpot Strike deploys a simple system for categorising its games, which are divided as follows: Player Favourites, New Games, Exclusive, Jackpots and All Games. Due to the full width tiles, it’s not easy to browse the games selection on desktop, but the system works perfectly on mobile and tablet. While most of the games to be found at Jackpot Strike are video slots, there are also table games. Since they don’t have a dedicated table games section, the best way to track them down is by typing their name into the search bar.

Hit the Jackpot

It would be criminal if a site called Jackpot Strike didn’t have a selection of jackpot games. Suffice to say there’s a good number of progressive jackpot titles to choose from on the site including Wolf Run, Winstar, Genie Jackpots and Cleopatra. The selection is completed by Siberian Storm and Isle O’ Plenty. The value of the progressive pots isn’t immediately apparent, but load up the game and you’ll swiftly discover how much you can potentially win.

Jackpot Strike features a number of exclusive games. If you’re the sort of completest who’s on a mission to play every 5-reel slot out there (yes, these people exist), creating an account at Jackpot Strike will be obligatory if only to tick off these esoteric games. Pay a visit to the exclusive section of the site and you’ll find leprechaun caper Shamrock ‘n’ Roll, Plucky Pirates, Best of British Deluxe and Mega Ball Action.

There’s also room for video poker game Jacks or Better. The selection is completed by Jumping Jack Cash, Cave Raiders Deluxe, Queen of the Skies, Gunslinger’s Gold and Mayan Marvels. It’s uncertain exactly why all of these games are listed as exclusive, as some of them at least are available elsewhere.

Slots Ahoy

The vast majority of the games at Jackpot Strike are slots of some description. Recent additions include 1421 Voyages of Zheng He, Wish Upon a Jackpot and Motorhead, the latter slot turning up everywhere at the moment and going down a storm. While the selection of slots at Jackpot Strike is reasonable, they’re all pretty generic stuff. There are certainly some good games in there, but if you’re looking for groundbreaking, zeitgeist-challenging fare, you’d be advised to look elsewhere. Still, if Egyptian tropes and Irish stereotypes are your bag, there’s plenty to play here.

Table Games

It turns out there’s a live casino buried deep within Jackpot Strike. The only way you’ll find this is by typing the name of a game into the search bar such as ‘blackjack’. This will pull up results for Blackjack, Blackjack Classic and a live casino version. Type in ‘roulette’ and you guessed it – a live version of roulette also shows up. You’d think there would be an easier way to navigate the site – a Table Games tab perhaps – but no, trial and error is all you get. Type in ‘baccarat’ and nothing shows up. It’s the same with ‘poker’. Nothing for ‘keno’ either, but type in ‘lotto’ and two games show up – Spin Lotto and Boss the Lotto.

Call it luck or recklessness, or a combination of both, but some people risk large sums of money on the off chance of an enormous win. And it does happen, with some paydays so ridiculously huge they are life changing, turning ordinary people into millionaires in a matter of hours.

Some of the luckiest casino wins of all time have happened to ordinary people, many of them down on their luck. But luck always has a way of surprising everyone, although higher payouts do tend to come from the larger bets.

Here are 12 stories about some of the biggest casino winners of all time…

Known as the “king of the casinos,” Archie Karas famously turned $50 into $40 million. Karas worked as a waiter until he learned about pool hustling, where he amassed serious wealth — to the tune of $1 million. Never afraid of losing, he would bet, in a single throw of the dice, what many gamblers might earn in a lifetime. While playing high-stakes card games in Los Angeles, he won plenty of money and was also completely broke on numerous occasions.

It was in December 1992 that Archie began what many consider the greatest hot streak in the history of gambling. He had just lost $2 million during a Los Angeles high-stakes poker game, so he only had $50 to spare. But it was all he needed to start winning big.

Karas began in Binion’s Horseshoe casino where a friend spotted him $10,000 to play high-stakes Razz, a game in which the lowest hand wins. He went head-to-head with 15 of the world’s greatest poker players, including Stu Unger, Chip Reese, Johnny Chan and Puggy Pearson.

He won millions at poker before winning millions more at craps, eventually coming into possession of the Horsehoe’s $5,000 chips — worth $11 million. By the time his run ended, he had won $17 million playing craps and poker at the Horseshoe. Incidentally, he was able to repay the $10,000 loan with 50% interest.

His winning streak continued for over two years, until he had amassed $40 million. He was able to turn $7 million into $17 million by besting some of the best poker players in Vegas at seven-card stud.

He also earned over a million dollars playing nine-ball pool. Even the occasional losing streak was not enough to keep him from winning far more than he lost.

His winning streak, however, did eventually come to an end over a three-week period in 1995, where he lost $11 million playing craps. He also lost $17 million at baccarat and another $2 million at poker. He soon lost the remainder of his $40 million — although he was eventually able to borrow $40,000 to win back $1 million.

Archie’s luck may have ran out in spectacular fashion, but his phenomenal winning streak remains the stuff of legend, and it is proof that anything is possible in gambling.

In 1989, a man won $4.6 million on a Megabucks slot machine at the Cannery Casino & Hotel in Vegas. His name was Elmer Sherwin, and he beat the odds, not once but twice, on the same slot machine. Some people consider certain machines lucky.

After Sherwin won his $4.6 million, he continued playing the same machine until he eventually won $2.1 million in 2005 at the age of 92, despite the odds of winning being estimated at one in fifty million.

Sherwin said he had been a fan of Megabucks for a long time. He believed it would pay off eventually, and that belief sustained him for years until his second win confirmed his instincts. It took 16 years playing the slot machine to duplicate his original feat.

Sherwin’s first win came on the casino’s opening night, leading to speculation about how big wins occur on opening nights. But as everyone attempts to explain what cannot be explained, a mythology arises. People may wonder how to duplicate Sherwin’s feat of superhuman luck, but so far, he remains the big winner — twice over.

There are other big winners of Megabucks slots, including a retired flight attendant who risked $300 in 1998 and won $27.5 million. Such wins may be rare, but they do happen from time to time.

The honor of winning the largest online gambling payout belongs to a Norwegian gambler by the name of Peter. It may not be his real name, but that is not what is important.

What matters is that he became an online casino winner by playing a progressive jackpot slot called Arabian Knights — and it was the fruit slot machine that made his surprise win possible. His winning streak netted him 11.7 million Euros, which translated to 38 million Norwegian Krone.

Peter played at the Betsson online casino which features the slogan, “Anything can happen.” Peter may have taken that to heart, and it was a good thing he did….

Mike Ashley, multi-billionaire owner of the Newcastle United Football Club, was already famous when he won 1.6 million pounds in the span of three hours at a roulette table in a London casino. His lucky number was 17, and his method of betting focused on every possible combination of that number.

As luck would have it, the roulette ball dropped into the 17 slot, converting his initial 480,000 pounds to three times that amount. Ashley retrieved his winnings and called it a day.

The odds of hitting 17 were high. But Ashley must have known that even a lucky number rarely strikes twice in a row. Then again, stranger things have happened. Although in 2011, Ashley lost one million pounds in the span of two hours. Easy come, easy go.

Sean Connery, aka super spy James Bond, also had tremendous luck betting on the number 17. While at a casino in the Italian Alps, in true Bond fashion, Connery put his money on 17. He missed the first two times, but on the third spin, the ball found 17. Leaving his winnings there, the croupier spun the wheel.

Surprisingly, the ball found the 17 slot again. What may have been even more surprising, or perhaps insane, was the fact that Connery once again left his winnings in place. Miraculously, the 17 came up a third time in a row, against odds of 50,000 to 1.

In Bond fashion, Connery coolly collected his winnings of 10,000 pounds, which in today’s market could very well be worth 163,000 pounds.

Curiously, there was a time when “17” was one of the most commonly played numbers in roulette. Not only did Connery win big on the number 17 in 1963, but he did the same in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever.

Although some have won fortunes on the number 17, it does not mean the rest of us will have the same good fortune with that number. If we have lucky numbers, the challenge is in figuring them out, and they do not always come neatly wrapped in fortune cookies.

Would you like to find yourself in the middle of a beautiful valley with lovely flowers around you? IGT’s In Bloom slot can make your dream come true. With 5 reels and 3 lines it shows the nicest landscape with blooming flowers. Sometimes it seems that you can smell the fascinating scent. Enjoying this video slot you can win 25000000 maximum prize.

IGT casino slots are popular with their unique features. In Bloom slot is not an exception. The special feature, which you’ve never heard about before, is called Symbol Burst feature. You probably wonder what it is about. After any spin every flower in the winning combination can transform into two and more flowers, which counts as a combination of symbols, not only one symbol.

There are two pictures that can trigger bonus game round: the Butterfly and the Globe. The last one can appear only in the third column. Three Globes pay 60x total bet. Two or three Butterflies on any position award you with the Garden Bonus. It means you should select one flower (Poppy, Rose, Galla Lily, or Water Lilly) that will give you bonus Free Spins. After the end of this round the Bonus Bump feature begins. This time your task is to choose one item that will multiply the total bet from the spin that triggered the Garden Bonus. As you can see, the slot offers you a great number of features and bonuses that lighten the game and increase the chances of winning.

Playing this video slot for fun you’ll meet the most beautiful and the brightest flowers on the reels. It’s no doubt you’ll feel yourself the part of nature, the part of this wonderful colourful valley that is introduced on the background. The graphics really impresses with its colours and accurateness. The music reminds the soundtrack from the tale, which makes you feel yourself calm and turn back to the childhood.

The follow up hit by Yggdrasil Gaming, The Dark Joker Rizes mobile slot is as dark and twisted as you’d imagine.

This casino slots developer created the Dark Joker Rizes after their over night success, The Jokerizer, became an instant hit with players. It was a fun, carnival theme game, which was pure popcorn fun.

So then, it made sense to murder that happy clown, send him to hell and back, and let him loose to haunt an abandoned carnival with frankenstein fruits and flaming wins.

Because clearly, someone in Yggdrasil had it in for that joker.

A darker theme, but the same ‘loveable’ game play

You have to be careful with the Dark Joker Rizes slot game.

It only has one feature, but it’s one that, when used carefully, can richly reward.

Personally, we find the Dark Joker Rizes slot difficult to get into. The reason being that, you can collect all the bells, sevens or fruits on these 5 reels, get 5 of a kind wins, paying both ways even, and it doesn’t matter one bit.

What you need is the joker symbol to appear multiple times, and the nerve to gamble back all your winnings in the hope of a bigger payoff.

I have to do what now?!?

The big wins are whenever you get at least 3 or more jokers in the base game. The more jokers you get, the better your chances of hitting that 600 times your bet max win.

Thing is, those jokers are hard to find. So whenever you find anything more than 20 coins, you can bet those winnings back in ‘jokerizer mode’.

This mode, means that you’ll get more frequent jokers, and you’ll only need two to potentially win anything from 2x to 600x your bet.

It’s a huge gamble, but one that if you don’t take, you might as well play on something like Chibeasties slot, which is far more traditional, with free spins and wilds.

There’s a reason The Dark Joker Rizes is popular

The dark theme only helps bring out the fact that this is a pretty unforgiving machine. But you can’t deny that your blood pumps high in your veins as you spin back all your winnings, just hoping that damn joker shows his face.

For us, it feels a little too much like paying the devil to take your soul, which is why we’ll always play on the brilliant Cyrus the Virus slot instead.

But let it not be said that the devil doesn’t know how reward it’s loyal clientele, with some beautiful wins for those who have nerves of steel.

It’s a barnyard full of loved up bovine as you chase the scatters for bigger multipliers, but settle for some muscle bound expanded wilds in this Crazy Cows mobile slot machine.

We should point out, straight away, that Crazy Cows video slot was created for one purpose: to catch all the players who didn’t try the excellent Enchanted Meadows slot because it’s ‘too girly’.

If you liked how the beautiful fairy Play’n Go game worked, but weren’t a fan of the theme, then just go play Crazy Cows. It’s the same game. If you’ve never heard of either… that’s ok, that’s what we are here for.

The Crazy Cows Slot Theme

Is remarkably well done. If you like that kind of ‘cartoony’ animal farm. Focusing on a group of girly cows going crazy over the jock, Bill the Bull (the wild symbol), it’s cheesy, it’s not particularly unique… but it works. Whilst Enchanted Meadow was enchanting, Crazy Cows slot game is silly and doesn’t take itself very seriously.

The bonus game has you picking cows for a high dive contest to impress Bill, where the farm dog gives you instant cash and a score of free spins games.

Play’n Go call the symbols ‘seductive cow, cow in love and awkward cow’. If you’re not at least half smiling right now, this theme will be wasted on you.

Like most mobile slots, it’s all about the free spins

If you are lucky you’ll get about 20, though the max is a potential 50, which is amazing but not as likely as getting the more usual 10 to 15 free spins.

They reason that more is better, apart from the obvious, is that every time you get two scatters on screen, the multiplier will increase by one. It starts at 2x all the way to 5x multiplier.

We’ve had some decent 60 to 80 times our bet when we hit some bigger multiplier and free spins, but just as often walked away with a more conservative 25x our bet.

Thank-fully, these aren’t that hard to trigger. And if you go a good 100 spins without hitting the bonus feature, it can often mean you’ll make a decent harvest.

Entertaining with lots of little features

But it’s not just the free spins that makes this a 4 star slot. It’s the expanded wild that helps keep your budget topped up. It’s the re-spin bonus you get from time to time with the expanded wild.

It’s the fact that instead of the Ace to 9 symbols, you get the letters ‘C, R, A, Z, Y’ instead.

Lots of little details keeping you hooked and with a good streak, a good 25% up on your budget, before you walk away satisfied with a farm load of entertainment.

The original IGT Cleopatra slot machine out of the Vegas Casinos gets the mobile treatment. Revamped and as great as the original game.

This IGT slot will always hold a special place in people’s hearts. There’s not a lot of casinos who haven’t had this slot machine on their shop floor at some point and many, in fact, still do. It’s one of the classic video slots for land based gambling establishments and gamblers love it. Then Cleopatra 2 came along. And then Cleopatra 3. Each an improvement on the other.

For mobile we get the original Cleopatra slot game and we have to say… the ol’ gal didn’t travel well at first, but then IGT released a second version which uplifted the game enough to get us to re-write this review. And we are oh so glad they did.

For one, this Queen of the Nile now looks stunning as an Android tablet or iPad slot. On smartphone it’s nice, but it’s on the bigger screen that the fine details of the design really shine through. From the torn edges of the papyrus to the jewel encrusted letters and numbers, this mobile slot feels like it can compete against it’s online counterpart. It also has original sounds that ties the whole slot together in one neat beautiful bow.

A classic for mobile slot fans in need of simple spins

That said, Cleopatra video slot was old before she even made her way to the mobile world, so fans of the more complicated games such as Crown of Egypt or Siberian Storm may not remember what it feels like to spin a simple 20 lines bonus game slot.

She spins fast, and the wins come often, but it’s not a thrill a minute. All you have to wait for is the free spins, which overall give decent returns. That doubling wild really helps, as though the chances of you getting the jackpot of 5 wilds in a row and getting 10,000x your line bet are slim, getting a five symbol win with a wild isn’t that crazy. It brings a few simple thrills to a simple game.

Cleopatra mobile slot game played well on all the devices we tested, with few to no bugs. It’s a great mobile IGT game for when you are on the move and need a reliable spin or two. She’s a classic, but with so many harder hitting IGT games out there, her age shows often enough that many may not see what the fuss is about. Ultimately this slot is all about nostalgia.

In-game bonus features

Wilds: The Cleopatra logo is the wild symbol, replacing all other symbols except the scatter and bringing with it a 2x multiplier.

Free Spins: 3, 4 or 5 Sphinx scatter symbols in any position on the reels will trigger the Cleopatra free spins bonus. These give you 15 free spins where all wins are tripled and is a great bonus game to hit which can give you the big wins of the game. Theoretically you can re-trigger this feature up to 180 free spins, but we wouldn’t put up your hopes up too high.

A simple game full of pirate treasure, enjoy a few uncomplicated spins on Capt. Quid’s Treasure Quest slot machine from IGT.

All set on the backdrop of a wooden pirate ship, all rigged up and ready to sail, this pirate themed slot offers you some smooth spins with it’s 5×3 reel layout.

The 15 paylines are filled with Captain Quid himself, a ship with sails, pirates, compasses and the calligraphic A – 10 as the lower paying symbols.

All of which bring a bright and rather cheery air to what could have been a much darker affair, as you go in search of the treasure hiding beneath these reels.

Simplicity pays

IGT have made the Capt. Quid’s Treasure Quest slot game extremely easy to understand. There’s no complex reel layouts, like you’d find in their Siberian Storm slot, and no big bonus game features like expanding wilds or wild reels like you’d find in Family Guy or many other of the IGT slots online.

Here you simply get high paying wilds in the form of the skull and crossed swords, which if you manage to find 5 on a payline, will pay 10,000x your line bet.

Not a bad sum.

The base game can offer you some decent returns, but it’s in the slots free spins where you can get over 100x your bet wins.

Free spins with multipliers

The most thrilling part of Capt. Quid’s Treasure Quest video slot is the free spin games.

Find three or more of the treasure chest bonus symbols across the five reels and you’ll trigger the bonus.

When you do, you’re greeted with a treasure map with a lot of ‘X marks the spot’. You get to pick from the x’s on the map to reveal free spins and multipliers.

We’ve had varying luck, with multipliers up to 8x and over 12 free spins, whilst other times only getting 2x multipliers with 6 free spins.

And it’s those multipliers, in combination with the high paying wilds, that you will bring you a bounty fit for a pirate king.

With wins ranging from 9x our bet, to over 170x, this game is tempestuous to say the least; it can reward you with golden treasures or tease you with just a few golden coins.

Is Capt. Quid’s Treasure Quest worth a spin?

Available to play online, this is one of the older IGT slot games, but one which still manages to entertain and thrill.

The simple reels and potentially high paying free spins get the heart pumping as you hope for some big wild wins.

The return to player rate is a little on the low side, ranging from 92.79% to 95.04%, meaning you’ll get some infrequent smaller wins to help your balance tick along whilst you wait around 60 – 80 base game spins or so for those free spin games to appear.

A game that’s just as good for beginners and experienced players alike.

So go grab a bottle of rum and enjoy a few spins aboard the Capt. Quid’s Treasure Quest slot.

Straight off – we love the theme. Beautiful opulent turn of the 19th century Venice, we wanted to love Venetian Rose slot.

It’s a wonderful romantic theme, and the music in the free spins feature transports you straight to a masquerade ball during Mardi Gras. But, behind the mask, we find that there is little to love in this NextGen mobile slot.

Let’s start with the basics, the wilds double your win and 3 masks give you free spins bonus rounds which triple your win. So far, so simple. You would think we would be forgiving of the simplicity of the features due to the great graphics and sounds right?

No. And that’s because we like to try slots games on several devices to make sure that 90% of people will be able to play – whether on Android smartphones, iPads or iPhones. On iPhones it works seamlessly, on iPads, an inch of the screen is underused with wasted space. We tried this game on two Android devices, one refused to load, the other loaded but was so small on your screen it might as well not have bothered; which is exactly what happened on a HTC mobile test.

The inconsistencies in the game play means we simply cannot advocate this game for mobile play. At best we can say that it will work on your iPad and tablets.

In-game bonus features

Wild Symbol: The beautiful Venetian Rose herself is the wild symbol, substituting all symbols except the mask symbol and doubling any winnings.

Free Spins: 3 masks trigger the free spins feature, triggering a charming 10 free spins where all wins are tripled. The free spins can be re-triggered, meaning you could potentially get 20 or more free spins.

Down the rabbit hole we go as we join Alice on a special multiplier filled adventure. The trick is to pick the right potion and find Wonderland rather than wake up to the cold harsh reality.

Alice Adventure mobile slot is basically the exact replica of the Ninja Chef slot by iSoftbet. And we gave that little beauty five stars.

We mention this because:

If you liked one you’ll like the other.

It plays just as well and the theme is as light and fun as you’d expect.

Yet we only gave Alice 4 stars, not five.

Why you ask? Before you rush to play Alice Adventure video slot, be aware that the betting range for this game is far smaller than in Ninja Chef, with a limited coin size of 0.01 and 0.02 – making the max bet only 6 in cash per spin. If this is going to be a problem for you, head to it’s sister asian themed slot machine.

If that doesn’t bother you, what you’ll find here is a fairly low variance entertaining game with oodles of personality and impressive multipliers to give even the harshest of red queen like critics something to smile about.

The wilds in this Alice Adventure slot game

There are two types of wilds that you’ll be grateful for during this mobile slot adventure.

First of all, the standard wilds come either as they are, or with a 2x, 3x and 5x mutliplier. And they are not that rare either. What is rare, but wonderful, is when more than one comes up and they add up together to a wonderful 10x multiplier. Again, don’t expect this often, but it gives a genuine feeling of being able to get decent size wins in the base game.

Then, there’s the free spin wilds.

Expanded wild + normal wilds on the free spin round

When you get three drink me potions on the five reels, you’ll get to choose between one of three free spin round. You can read about more in the feature section below.

But basically, you can either get small amount of free spins, with a big multiplier, or lots of free spins, but smaller multipliers.

Now we are going to tell you one big secret: doesn’t matter diddly squat which you choose. What matters is how many expanded wilds you’ll get during the free spins. It’s usually one, in which case, with the addition of some well timed wilds with multipliers, you can easily walk away with a good 30x to 60x your bet.

But get two expanded wilds and then you’re cooking with gold filled oil. At this point you can get anything from 80x to 200x (or more) your bet, easy.

Though we’ve been lucky with all, we find that we most consistently get more if we pick the 8 free spins with 3x multiplier – but that’s our personal taste. We do recommend you test out this machine on your device, as sometimes the sounds can disappear on iPads that do not have the latest updates and Android tablets.

All in all, Alice Adventure slot machine on mobile offers something wondrous; an exciting journey, with fun and thrills, but without a huge amount of risk. Much like a dream, you’ll be able to play for far longer than you’d thought, and still get a great big hope for a big free spin feature.

A simple title it might have, but this is no simple slot machine. Except it is… Only it isn’t… It’s a strange Wild West mobile slot world.

We’ll admit that when we first started playing this Wild West slot from NextGen Gaming, we couldn’t figure out if we liked it or not. Clearly by the four star rating we went one way rather than the other, but we suspect this machine might divide players none-the-less.

And it’s not for lack of a nice theme. No generic aces and high cards here, which they would have been well within their right to add, as technically the theme, as far as we can tell, is “playing high stakes poker in a saloon with a bottle of hooch, a snarky dame, a horse high on something, and a one-heart-attack short of the great chip stack in the sky cowboy”.

It’s specific we’ll give you that. But at least the Wild West video slot is not boring, with free spins that trigger in a most original way and come often.

The NextGen Superbet with a twist

The superbet has become a well loved feature in NextGen slots. The brilliant Foxin Wins gives you extra wilds and the dangerous Merlin’s Magic Respin gave you stacked wild re-spins.

We write more about it in the bonus feature section below, but basically, in the Wild West slot game you can choose to pay more to give the wild symbol a multiplier or x2 or x5.

The relevance of this will soon become clear, but the twist in this tale is that the Wild West Superbet is remarkably affordable. Even if you choose the top superbet of x5 (which you should), you can play for as little as 0.50 a spin, which may sound high for a 5 reel, 10 payline slot machine, but trust us when we say that you need it to get anything on this game.

Wild West Bonus games triggered by the Wild symbols

You’re not gonna win anything of any significance in the base game. Sorry cowboy, but you might as well know that these cards are rigged against you. Short of a five symbol win, with the added superbet cost, anything less barely covers the cost of a spin.

That’s not to say you can’t win big. The superbet adds a multiplier on the wilds. Anytime you get a win with a wild symbol, you get 5 free spins. These free spins come with stacked scatter symbols which pay out as much as your triggering wild win.

That’s significant for your bank account in three ways:

These bonus games show up often. Almost as often as in the five star Potion Commotion slot.

This is the one slot in history where you don’t care about paylines

One good bonus round can bring you back from the brink of quitting

Simple and entertaining

Once you get your head around the fact that your big wins comes from the stacked scatters in the free spin round, you can settle more easily into the easy rhythm of this game.

If you play with the 2x multiplier, we would probably remove a star, and make this a 3 star slot. Still very playable, but the chances of getting a big enough win to get you to that 25% up on your budget mark decreases dramatically. So choose x5 if you can.

At the end of the day, remember that the Wild West mobile phone slot has a top, top jackpot win of around 750x your bet. So a good free spin round will only get you about 50x to 70x your bet generally and that’s with that 5x multiplier. Even then it can be much less at times.

But the possibility is there. And when you get a free spins round where every stacked chip is worth 20x your bet alone… and they line up to cover the screen, reel to reel… that’s when you’ll shout yeehaw! and shoot imaginary guns into the air, Looney Tunes style.

Following in the tradition of releasing their big brand online slots only on their download Android casino apps, Microgaming’s Playboy slot follows Immortal Romance & The Dark Knight Rises as a slot for Android tablets and phones. It does take a little while to download, but trust us, it’s worth it.

Sorry iPhone users, you’ll have to go play on Thunderstruck II for similar, beautiful, game play.

Not just for the boys

Chances are, if you are reading this, you’re probably a guy. The brand caught your eye and you want to check it out. However, we hope women will also give this mobile slot a chance for several reason (some which may disappoint the boys):

It’s not that racy: the most you get is the play mates getting progressively more naked, but with tactical placement of arms, phones and hair.

There are no lude or crude scenes. The base game is surprisingly tame, with more of a wink and a nudge to it’s famous brand.

Think ‘Monte Carlo, heading to the beach in my white classic car, with a little leg and bum on show’.

It’s incredibly slick and good fun, with some really decent wins and great free spins rounds.

If you are a guy, we are also telling you this to avoid disappointment when you head over to play Playboy mobile slot. This is a Microgaming slot machine, they don’t really ‘do’ R-rated.

Thank-god for the awesome game play

So, if you can get over the lack of boobs on display, this actually turns out to be an awesome Android slot game. The music is fun and funky; imagine being in a late night beach club having champagne. You have your high card symbols as well as the beautiful girls on the reels, with the wild showing up often and multiplying your wins by two.

But it’s in the free spins games that you’ll get the big wins on this Playboy mobile slot. Much like the slot games we mentioned at the beginning of the review, you’ll have to progressively unlock the free spin features, but thank-fully, though the last one to unlock is the best feature in our book, the rest hold their own nicely so you have plenty of chances of good wins without having to wait to unlock the last one.

You’ll have to read our full review of each of the features below to see which, we think, is worthwhile.

Medium volatility, high in-game slot jackpot

That’s the kind of combination we like to hear. Chances are, most of the big wins you’ll find in the Playboy slot machine base game will be around the 10x your bet mark. Actually, even with some of the free spin features you will only walk away with that.

And then suddenly, out of nowhere, you’ll get a brilliant, climax inducing, eye popping, throw your head back in wild joy 150x your bet, and you’ll smile in pure ecstasy. That’s as high as we’ve hit, but we’ve read of players hitting as much as 500x their bet and a little more, so there are plenty more thrills to be found in these 5 reels. We know we’ll keep looking.

Just be careful with budgeting carefully, as there will be periods where you’ll be paying for all the champagne and wondering when the pretty girls will show up. But when they do, you’ll feel like a million bucks.

The Reel Steal is a video slots game with a 1970s New York gangster feel, which consists of five reels and three rows and offers a 9-bet multiple coin option. There is more than a hint of Grand Theft Auto about this game, and it incorporates useful features like the auto play option.

The wild symbol in The Reel Steel acts as a multiplier, giving you 25 times your winnings during the Free Spin Bonus Round. This round is triggered when you spin three or more scatter symbols. The scatter symbol is the Bomb made of dynamite, which helps form winning sets when there are at least two of these icons somewhere among the five reels.

When you get to the Free Spins Bonus Round after getting three Bomb icons, your winnings here are multiplied by five. And if you get another Bomb symbol during the Free Spins Bonus Round, you get an extra free spin.

The game offers a maximum win of a whopping 375,000 coins – for this you must be playing at the maximum bet level and coin value.

How to play The Reel Steal

The Reel Steal slot machine features a row of five main buttons which control play:

Bet Lines – Press to change the number of paylines. There are 9 in total.

Spin symbol – Spin the reels.

Max Bet – Selects all paylines and spins at your current coin value and bet level.

Coin Value – The amount bet on each selected payline, ranging from $0.01 to $1.

Reel Steal has only one bonus feature. When you hit three or more of the ‘Dynamite’ scatter symbols anywhere on the reels, you are awarded a number of free spins based on the number of Dynamite symbols that turn up. During the free spins, all wins have a five times multiplier and each Dynamite symbol that appears adds one extra free spin to your total.

This NetEnt game brings you face to face with a crazy looking wrecking crew, as you hope this Demolition Squad slot can bring you some big wins.

With a manga cartoon style slot theme, this five reel slot machine brings you come face to face with dozers, scaffolding and all things that remind you of a construction site.

The slot symbols themselves consist of the lower paying A – 10, all made to blend in with the theme of concrete and metal. Then you’ve got higher paying symbols as the faces of a Demolition Squad themselves.

You’ve got dozer driver, jack hammer operator, sledge hammer wielder, and a blow torch waving, and axe crazed mohawk, crew members. Along with a red eyed robot for some reason, because crazy shit happen in Japanese demolition, we guess?

The overall theme, sounds, graphics, and animations will keep you well entertained as you spin in the hope of hitting this Demolition Squad slot game’s main bonus feature, the free spins.

Demolition Wilds for bigger wins

The regular wilds substitute for all symbols, except the yellow triangle scatter symbol, and they only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4.

Much like the regular wild, but with more power, you’ll also find the red, yellow and black Demolition Wild symbols. When two of these appear, any the symbols between them will also turn into a Demolition Wild.

You’ll then get an explosion on screen, and hopefully you’ll get a big win, or at least a win of some kind, to help top up your casino balance.

But this isn’t where the big wins of the game will come, these will be in the free spins which combine the demolition wilds with a 3x multiplier.

Demolition Squad free spins with 3x multipliers

The main bonus game in this Demolition Squad slot game is that of the free spins. These are not easy to find mind you; we’ve had to spin over a good 150 – 200 spins to find them, and when you do they aren’t always lucrative.

You trigger them by finding 3 or more of the yellow triangle scatter symbols, 3 reward you 10 free spins, 4 gives you 20, and find 5 scatters to give you the ultimate 50 free spins.

Mostly you’ll be lucky to find three scatters and enjoy 10 free spins.

All the free spins wins come with 3x multipliers and the Demolition Wilds can come into great effect here. We’ve had wins of 8x ranging up to and over 100x our total bet.

They aren’t a thrill a minute, but when you see the whole squad show up with the Big Win, you’re eyes will light up and your heart will belong to the god of destruction.

The titan god of time and ages, this Kronos mobile slot is bigger and badder than it’s sons. Yet it might not be better.

In so many ways, the mobile Kronos slot looks and feels very similar to the Zeus slot. Even, in terms of theme and look, Zeus 3, but that’s a fairly different game.

This Kronos slot machine is a 30 payline, 5 reel game, which unlike so many other WMS machines, is actually fairly… boring.

Raging Rhino has 6 reels, Spartacus has 100 paylines and super reels. In comparison Kronos looks tame, with diamonds, spades and clubs sitting side by side with ancient greek symbols of powers, like thrones, shields, and pegasus.

It’s not hugely original, but set in a royal blue reel, the symbols certainly stand out.

Watch out for this vengeful god

In the original greek myth story, Kronos is so fearful that his son will overthrow him, that he swallows each of his children alive.

This mobile video slot feels a little like that.

You’ll need to watch your budget on the game that bears his name. The wild symbol will help you get a few wins in the base game, but if you really want to get the big bucks, you’ll be looking out for the main man himself.

The Kronos slot symbol comes stacked, and more importantly, pays whether they appear on the left to right, or right to left, of the reels. As long as they are next to each other and on a winning payline, you’ll get a mountain of wins.

We’ve hit 50 times and 70 times our bet in the base game alone.

Kronos is king for a reason

Kronos fate does not end well. In the end Zeus starts a 10 year war on his father and then takes the throne of Olympus.

We have to be honest with you, WMS names this slot well. Because in the end, the Zeus slots tend to be better loved than this Kronos video slot.

He is too harsh, too unforgiving on your wallet to be universally loved.

But he’s powerful, and what he lacks in compassions, he makes up in some glorious wins to make the gods jealous. Like getting 100 free spins on 5 scatters. Or finding a stack of wilds during one good free spin round.

Mostly it’s Kronos himself, looking down at you in arrogance, thinking you’ll never take his riches. And mostly you won’t… till the one day you do, and on that glorious day you’ll feel like Zeus himself.

IGT introduce to you the hexagonal Bubble Craze mobile slot, that’s more than a little different, yet still much of the same.

The craze for slot games that aren’t slots continues. First we had a bet real money Bejewelled, then Betsoft came long with SugarPop! and Play’n Go brought you the strangely captivating Gemix slot.

Now IGT have done their own variation with the techno crazy Bubble Craze video slot game. Played in portrait only (you’ll understand why when you load the game), it’s far more suited as an Android phone or iPhone slot than tablets for that reason alone.

A game is still a game, even if you can bet on it

The little coloured bubbles float from the bottom up. You’ll need to get four of the same colour touching to get a win. Though we found that unless you get at least 8 symbols on screen, the wins in this Bubble Craze slot machine are pretty minimal.

Thankfully there are a couple of symbols helping your wallet along the way. The multiplier bubble gives you either x2 or x5 your win, though it’s far rarer than the unique Transform bubble. This little beauty turns every bubble adjacent the same colour, which if it sits right in the middle of the screen, gives you at least a 6 of a kind win, if not usually more.

As you can see, this isn’t your run of the mill slot machine.

We want an IGT video slot

The thing is, that IGT do slot machines beautifully well. But Bubble Craze lacks that IGT magic. The sounds are something that a 16 year old created at home with their electric keyboard, which meant we turned the sound off early on.

And once the sounds were off, the theme become fairly boring and standard, even with the special symbols.

But, IGT can be relied on to do one thing right: the free spin games.

The Bubble Craze slot free spins round

Here’s where the real wins come, and the real excitement lies. You only get 5 free spins, but every one of them counts, as you are guaranteed a multiplier and a transform symbol on every spin.

Meaning you can actually walk away with about 40x to 50x your bet on an average free spin round. Sometimes a lot more.

Still, unless you catch those free spins early on, we suspect that Bubble Craze mobile slot will get old very quickly.